Twittelator Pro is a twitter client with support for multiple accounts. It is beautifully designed and feature packed to make your mobile twitter experience quick and enjoyable. It would take a book to review each and every feature of Twittelator Pro, so I will pick what I consider the highlights and direct you to Twittelator's full feature list for more.

GENERAL INTERFACE
Twittelator Pro has 3 different themes to chose from: Gradient, Dove, and Raven. Here are some screenshots demonstrating all three.

Big Stone Phone claims that each theme is ideal for different lighting conditions: Gradient for indoors, Dove for outdoors, and Raven for night.

The Tab Bar at the bottom has what you'd expect from any Twitter application: Friends, Mentions, Messages, Settings, and More. However, Twittelator distinguishes itself by making it customizable. When in the More tab, hit edit and you can now drag any item to any of the four locations next to "More".

READING TWEETS

I absolutely adore the experience of reading tweets with Twittelator Pro. The above photo (stolen from Twittelator's website) shows how much info is included with each tweet. Not shown in the picture, however, is that you can have both the username and real name of the tweeter displayed (as seen in my screenshots). This is great for people like me who want to see real names but are terrible at remembering usernames.

Tapping a user's avatar brings you to their profile. If there were any other users mentioned in the tweet, then you will be asked who's profile you want to view. The profile interface includes the typical info, including the option to follow or stop following. There is also a magnifying glass to quickly search for other screen names and what looks like a price tag to bookmark the user.

Tapping a username brings up a list of options for that tweet: reply, private, re-tweet, email tweet, copy tweet, favorite tweet, or copy link to tweet (more on copying later). You can save a tweet by tapping and holding for 2 seconds.

If there is a #hashtag or hyperlink included in a tweet, tapping the paperclip will take you to the the hash feed or website. When viewing a website, you can copy the link (again, more on this later). If there is a photo attached (with yFrog, Pikchur, TwitPic, MobyPicture, or twitgoo) there will be a thumbnail of it to the right. Tapping it will allow you to view it. When viewing an image, there is a little two-way arrow icon at the upper right which toggles between filling your screen vertically or horizontally. It's nice to be able to view photos in full screen even if the photo wasn't taken with an iPhone. Tapping on the photo will give an option to save it to your camera roll.

If there is a bubble around the time since the tweet was tweeted, then this indicates a conversation. Tapping the bubble will allow you to read the chain of replies. If there is not a bubble, then tapping the time opens a new @ reply to the tweeter.

WRITING TWEETS
Writing a tweet is an experience of its own with Twittelator Pro. There are many options, characters, and features that make writing tweets fast, easy, and fun. Twittelator does support landscape keyboard (and can be disabled from settings).

If you had previously copied a link or tweet, you can paste it into your tweet by tapping the bottle of glue. Even if you've exited the application, Twittelator Pro will remember what you have copied. To add a photo, tap the camera. Tapping the drop pin will add link to Google maps of your current location. Unfortunately, opening such a link will not launch the native Google maps application on the iPhone.

Underneath the current character count, you can tap on the icons to bring up 8 pages of characters. The characters are viewable with other twitter clients as well as on the web. Very cool.

At the upper right of the New Tweet screen, there is a button called "@friends". Here you find a scrolling list of who you are following. Scroll to who you want to @mention, tap +, and Twittelator adds them to your tweet. I think this is a great feature, but feel as though it can be better. I only follow 93 people, and it can take awhile to scroll through the list. I can't imagine if I was following 300+ users. I think something like Contacts with the alphabet on the side would be better. Ideally, I'd like to see an autofill feature.

Inside the tweet bubble, there is a # on the bottom right and two arrows facing each other on the bottom left. Tapping # will provide a scrolling list of all the #hashtags you have used before. Tapping the arrows will shrink your tweet (including URLS) with common abbreviations. This is nice for those situations when your tweet is 10 characters or so over the limit.

One of the coolest things I found about Twittelator Pro is the ability to tweet from Safari. First you must go into Twittelator's settings and tap "Add Safari Bookmarklet". This leads you to a website with the instructions for setting up this feature. It's very simple - just save the page as a bookmark, then edit it by deleting the beginning of the URL. Once set up, just open the bookmark with Safari and it will launch Twittelator Pro with the URL of the website you were viewing added to a new tweet. Awesome!

Pressing Send does not immediately send your tweet. You are given the option to send, or save as draft. I do not like this, but luckily there is an option to disable it! If disabled, you must hit cancel to get the option to save the tweet. Twittelator Pro allows you to save as many drafts as you want. This is awesome for those times you don't have reception, want to log a quick thought, or for iPod Touch users. If you have any saved drafts, you will see "tap for drafts" under "New Tweet", so tapping here gives access to your drafts.

MORE
There is much more you can do with Twittelator Pro. Some of the highlights are:

create subgroups

view tweets of users you have bookmarked

access saved tweets

see just your tweets

delete your tweets/messages

play mp3 and video within Twittelator Pro

search nearby tweets

switch between accounts while creating a new tweet

CONCLUSION
Twittelator Pro is the best iPhone twitter client I have used. It is clear that the the developers put a lot of thought and effort into this app with its nice interface and many features. At $4.99, Twittelator Pro isn't the cheapest client available, but it is worth every penny.

Leanna Rocky Mountain High! Great review - btw - there is an option to "Tweet without Confirmation" in settings for one-tap tweet. And Google Maps was a hack in iPhone 2.x - I've been reluctant to add stuff that might get the app rejected, the good news: iPhone 3.0 has full support for Google Maps!

@twittelator is correct, there is an option to disable the send tweet confirmation and that can be toggled in the settings.

I totally agree with you in the searching of contacts when adding a user name to a tweet. This is something that Twitterfon has implemented very nicely.

One thing that I didn't like at first was the navigation around the tweet itself. Since I don't ever (and I mean ever) read directions, I found some of the tweet nagivation (retweet, user profile, hash tags, etc) to be counter intuitive. I have switched from Tweetie to Twittelator and really liked how Tweetie handled information within the tweets. Tapping on the tweet would open it up and any user name, hash tag or link would act like a hyperlink. I hope that Twittelator would consider adding this feature.

Leanna Rocky Mountain High! Great review - btw - there is an option to "Tweet without Confirmation" in settings for one-tap tweet. And Google Maps was a hack in iPhone 2.x - I've been reluctant to add stuff that might get the app rejected, the good news: iPhone 3.0 has full support for Google Maps!

Great review. This is my favorite Twitter app. It does so much. Once you get used to how to use and navigate to all the features that it has, it's even better. I had been using Tweetie, but picked this up a few days ago and have been loving it ever since.

Already have Tweetie and Twitterfon .. really want Twittelator Pro but can't decide if I really need a third twitter app when its $5..

Me too. And I keep hoping Tweetie will have their major update soon but I'm running out of patience. I keep reading how great this app is and I'm getting more and more tempted by the day. But is it really worth $5?

Awesome review (wish I saw it sooner), thanks. Been thinking about another Twitter client. For some reason Twitterific always opens me at the main screen and not my timeline anymore and it's annoying. Heard lots of good things about this client, maybe I'll give it a go.

Thanks Alli. I have about 6 Twitter apps. Tweetie and TwitterFon being the two I use regularly. But I keep reading about the Twittelator app and I'm very curious. I like the pictures of the UI and find myself so tempted to get it. But I keep getting stuck at the $5 sticker price.

I currently have both Twittelator Pro and and Twitterfon Pro, both latest versions. I personally like Twitterfon better because it starts up super fast, while twittelator takes a little bit of time to start up(30 seconds with loading). Also, with twittelator you have the option to load 20,40, 60 or whatever tweets on startup. the problem is that if you pick 20 for example, it'll only load the latest 20 even if there's 20+ unread, and the more you choose to load on startup, the longer it takes to load. My favorite thing on Twittelator is the tweet shortener, it's awesome in every way and I wish Twitterfon had this. These are the only two things that kind of bother me, I'm kind of impatient so the very quick load/start up time in twitterfon wins me over. Both are great Twitter apps, for the same price (i think?). Look up both and compare.